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Macon GME Program

GME Research/Scholarly Activity

Scholarly Activity Overview

All of our residents participate in scholarly activity during their residency here at Piedmont Macon Medical. While residents come to us with a varying degree of knowledge about and experience with scholarly activity, as Research Director, I assist residents through their journey from start to completion of their program’s SA graduation requirement. I track resident scholarly activity progress and, depending on the level of need, assist with creating ideas for projects, finding faculty mentors, creating project designs, obtaining appropriate approvals, overcoming obstacles, manuscript edits, manuscript development, and submissions for publication. As an intern, residents complete the CITI Program research, ethics, and compliance training and must remain current until they graduate. They can then choose a case report/series, a quality improvement project, original research project, literature review, or curriculum series as a category for their project. However, the focus of the project is individualized, and residents are free to choose the focus of their project. The ultimate goal is for each resident to present at Resident Research Day at least once during his or her residency. Residents are also encouraged to present their work at state and national conferences and/or publish their manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. Our residents have placed at the Georgia Chapter ACP and National ACP Poster Competitions two years in a row and have presented at the APA Annual Conference. Other resources available to our residents include IRB support through Piedmont Healthcare, librarians and library resources from both Piedmont and Mercer University School of Medicine, biostatisticians from Mercer University School of Medicine, and the opportunity for collaboration with Mercer University faculty and students.


Resident Research Day

Every year in May, our Piedmont Macon GME program gives the residents an opportunity to present some of the great scholarly activity projects they have completed over the last year during our Resident Research Day. These presentations are judged on the quality of the project and the presentation itself. Our grand prize winners for 2022 were psychiatry residents Drs. Brielle Marks, Jacob Hanna, and Brian Birdsong, along with faculty Dr. Grady Carter, for the podium presentation on their Opiate Withdrawal Order Set quality improvement project. Honorable mention was awarded to a poster created by internal medicine residents Drs. Chibuzor Ejike and Adham Abdulamir titled An Occurrence of Rapid Onset Immune Thrombocytopenia after Receiving the Moderna COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine. Our Resident Research Day is an exciting event held each year and is very well attended by hospital administration, attending physicians, Mercer University faculty, and of course, our residents.


Journal Club

One of the ways our GME team helps residents review the foundations of evidence-based medicine and explore research design is through regular journal club sessions. Each program has dedicated journal club sessions each month for residents to choose a research article and present to their peers and faculty. The goal of journal club is to not only review relevant recent and/or seminal research articles and discuss its contribution to medicine but also to learn how to objectively analyze the research itself. Residents are encouraged to interact with the audience, critique their article, and provide research design and statistical teaching points designed to target the knowledge needed for the board exam. This also allows them to practice professional presentations in preparation for Resident Research Day or presenting at other external conferences. As Research Director, I regularly attend journal club presentations and assist with the evaluation of the journal article, research design and stats review, and formatting the presentation.


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